I never thought brows mode benifitted anyone It's just another keystroke and
another unwanted feature. Serotek have got it bang on the money. No brows
mode and you can seeminglessly just arrow in to the fields. I know that
sometimes field names aren't read when brows mode is on and I find this to
be true with Jaws when the forms mode is on. I run both screen readers such
as System Access and Window-eyes7. Both have their week points so each
screen reader is used depending on the task. For example I would use WE7 for
messenger and dealing with websites which have flash and pull down menus
which can be only accessed by a sighted person who uses a mouse to hover
over the menu name for the list to appear. WE7 is the only screen reader
which can access those kinds of menus. The website in which I'm refering to
is www.soccermanager.com and there will be a vertical menu across the top of
the page in which you have to hover the mouse over to see the list boxes. I
think you need to register and login if you want to test the menus.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray" <[email protected]>
To: "Sandra Fouts" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Browse mode question
Hum Sandra, interesting question this one.
GW Micro's not addressing browse mode in the forthcoming 7.1 release, but
pretty sure they said that's slated for version 8.
Who knows what will happen by then? Interestingly System Access - as we
now
know it as - has had scemeless browsing with no "browse mode" for ever.
Another company thought that would be a good idea - and to my knowledge
Serotec hasn't launched a a suit saying "we had the idea First!" Whether
the unamed company will try to propriatise the idea who knows, but in any
case GW seems to hint that browse mode as we know it might disappear.
Quite what can be fenced off in software design in patents has always been
less than obvious to me. Apple got nowhere with the "look and feel" of
their OS being "stolen" by Microsoft. I notice so far that Sony doesn't
seem to be suing the writers of Goldwave for pinching the JKL keystrokes
for
scrolling in their audio editor.
let's hope no one can fence of the idea of not switching into and out of
browse mode.
It's my guess GW will stay silent on this one for some while yet.
Ray.
Sandra Fouts wrote:
Greetings. Just wondering. It's my understanding that JAWS no longer has
their forms mode. Are we going to get lucky and get rid of Browse mode
completely? I wish we would! It would be nice to just type in an edit
box
without having to turn the thing on or off. Also, when it is off, you
miss things on other lines if you're trying to fill out a form.
Sandra Fouts
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Little Rock, AR
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